pickelhaubes

Imperial guest, they had omitted "pickelhaubes" from the bill of fare?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 Various

He had understood, from well-informed friends, that the EMPEROR seldom went anywhere without some "pickelhaubes," whatever they might be, as he himself, the worthy Alderman, had never had the opportunity of tasting one.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 Various

Tabs with brain-fag; Mechanical Transporters in spurs and stocks, jam merchants in revolvers and bowie-knives, Military Police festooned with _pickelhaubes_, and here and there a furtive fighting man who had got away by mistake, and would be recalled as soon as he landed.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various

'I'm hanged if I know,' I said; 'but I'll bet it won't be done by a pack of stout German officers in _pickelhaubes_.

Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

Mr. Forrest, seated at a neighboring desk with a big atlas before him was far away among the glinting _pickelhaubes_ on the banks of the

A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888

I mean, what's next: Goosesteps and pickelhaubes on Remembrance Day?

THE MONARCHIST 2009

There's a wider range of faces, fewer handlebar moustaches, frock coats or pickelhaubes, but otherwise, as the world's governments try to decide how to carve up the atmosphere, they might have been attending the conference of Berlin in 1884.

CommonDreams.org Headlines 2009

The impression acquired during this flying visit was that for all practical purposes the Germans had everything ready for an immediate invasion of Belgium and Luxemburg when the crisis arrived, that they were simply awaiting the fall of the flag, that when war came they meant to make their main advance through Belgium, going wide, and that _pickelhaubes_ would be as the sands of the sea for number well beyond Liège within a very few days of the outbreak of hostilities.

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

I’ll bet it won’t be done by a pack of stout German officers in pickelhaubes.

Greenmantle 2005